Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...